USN-2531-1: Requests vulnerability

requests vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Ubuntu 14.10

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Requests could be made to expose cookies over the network.

Software Description

requests - elegant and simple HTTP library for Python

Details

Matthew Daley discovered that Requests incorrectly handled cookies without
host values when being redirected. A remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to perform session fixation or cookie stealing attacks.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: